Boy of the Painted Cave

October 4, 2006


1. I am good at math and soccer.

2. Smart and very athletick.

3. Not so bad for math but sad for soccer.

chapter 1


1. What problems or conflict are presented in chapter 1? Tao having to find a rabbit is an obvious one; identify at least two more.
Hiding Ram from the clan. Hiding his painting.
2. Predict the resolution they will accept Ram? Yes,because Ram will help Volt.

chapter 2


What two imprtant events are in this chapter? Tao meets Graybeard. Graybeard will teach Tao how to paint.

chapter 3

1. What do Tao and Ram learn to do? hunt
2. What decision does Tao tell Volt? He tells him never to hunt with Ram.
3. Look at Tao's decision and actions from Volt's perspective. Pretend your Volt. Write a first person paragraph explaning how you feel .
Tao has not been following the rules. He should be more my clan. He should even be like me routhful and tough. He's lucky that even his mother wasted her life for him.

chapter 8


This girl's dad is at the hospital because of a deadly sickness. It took a very expensive operation to cure him. Her mom didn't have that kind of money. So she got her friends to help her rob a very well secured bank. But they didn't take all the money only what they needed, and they managed to get out of the bank with the money. Then they went to the hospital paid the doctor for the operation and her dad got cured.

chapter 9


1. Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind?

Because Tao is very talented and he might become a chosen one one day.

What does this tell you about his character?

That he is very thoughtful, forgiven, and nice.

chapter 11


Do you think that Graybeard is a good teacher? Why?

Yes, because he actually teaches you step by step.

Would you want to have been taught by him? Why?

The Giver

chapter 1


Quote

" Like animals ". Neither
child knew what the word
meant, exactly, but it was
often used to described
someone uneducated or
clumsy, someone who
didn't fit in.
pg. 7

Why? What it means?

I can't bealief that kids don't
know what animals means?

chapter 2


Quote

Many of the comfort objects,
like Lily's were soft, stuffed
imaginary creatures(animals).
pg. 19

Why? What it means?

How can a person not see an
animal in their whole life?

chapter 3

Quote

Almost every citizen in
the community has dark
eyes.
pg. 20

Why? What it means?

Why do most people in that
community have dark eyes?

chapter 4

Quote

She never had a family
unit.
pg. 31

Why? What it means?

How can someone not not have afamily unit
if the rules strictly instruct everybody has to
bein a family unit with two children one boy
and one girl?

chapter 5

Quote

He rarely dreamed.
pg. 33

Why? What it means?

How come he can rarely dream if people
dream even day-dream?

chapter 6

Quote

The bicycle, at Nine, would
be the powerful emblem of
moving gradually out into the
community,away from the
protective family unit.
pg. 39

Why? What it means?

Why is the Nine a step ito growing
up while some of us have to wait
until were 13 to go out by ourselfs?

chapter 7

Quote

"Asher", she , "thank you
for your childhood"
pg. 53

Why? What it means?

What does it mean?

chapter 8
Curi, Shokrolah June 6, 2007
Period. 2/3
Zhang Qian
Introduction
Zhang Qian is a Chinese explorer. He was born in the second
century of B.C. He is usually called the father of the Silk Road, because
he opened the way for Chinese and western people to trade. The Silk
Road is a road that Chinese people traveled on to trade goods and
information.
The Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of smaller trade routes that are four-
thousand miles long ( crossing Asia ). It was from Louyang and the
capital of Chang’an in China, to parts of the Mediterranean like Antioch is
Suria. In the first one-hundred years of C.E. the Mediterranean part was taken over by the Roman Empire. The Silk Road connected the Han Empire, and the Roman Empire. Food and ideas traveled through the Silk Road. Chinese people traded stuff like spices from India, and glass stuff from Rome. On their trades the idea of Buddhism also came to China. The Silk Road connected the Eastern people, and the western people, for over a thousand year.
The Mission
In one-hundred-thirty- eight B.C. he was send out on a journey to bring back information about a nomadic tribe by a king ( but failed in the attempt ). But he made friends with other people.
The Second Mission
But in one-hundred-nineteen B.C. he was send on his second journey, but this time with three-hundred men, ten-thousand sheep, and mounts of gold and silk. And this time he managed.
And that is how Zhang Qian became a really famouse ancient Chinese traveler.